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THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
the Cimbri and Gael_, is therefore entirely
overturned, as his great partition of the
South to the Cimbri and Belgce was be-
fore. Thofe whom he denominates Cimbri and
oppofes to the Gael, the Cimbric Ottadini of
p. 51, lived only in a fmall part of the country
which he has affigned to the Cimbri, and
poiTefled alfo a large portion of that region
which he has allotted to the Gael. But this is
not all. The whole " country between the
*' Walls" Mr. Macpherfon here refigns up to
the Gael, as the Selgova?, Gadeni, and Others
whom he engages in hoflility with, and there-
fore fuppofes to be of a different origin from,
the Ottadini immediately to the South of the
nearer Wall. But the whole body of the Otta-
dinian dominions, except a very fmall flip of land
along the fouthern edge of Northumberland,
was aOually to the North of the nearer Wall ^.
Mr. Macpherfon cedes all *' the country betwixt
** the Walls'* to his Gael, and therefore brings
them down to the northern banks of the Solway
and Tweed. But he is not aware, that the
nearer Wall did not run from the Solway to the
Tweed. It began on the Solway : but it ended
on the Tyne.
Thus have I laid open the numerous miflakes
in this remarkable palfage. I have fhewn the
* Hiftory of Mancheller, p. 63.
reafonlngs.